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Robert of Gloucester, Metrical Chronicle.Robert of Gloucester's Metrical Chronicle:Begins (1, 1 recto lines 1-3): England is a well good londe in the stead best | set in the one ende of the world and renneth west | the sea goeth him all abowt, he stynt as in IleEnds (14, 4 verso line 31): for the sonday [after which a somewhat later hand continues to line 12049 of the poem = ii, 1 recto line 9]: And of holi churche me thinke with vil wouRemarks: On i, 1 verso in a late XVII. Cent. hand: 92 | Poet. 1.On i, 2 recto in a late XVII. Cent. hand: M:S.S. | Lib. | 38. 12s.On i, 6 recto by Rev. Jos. Stevenson, S.J.: I have added in the margin the paging of Herne's Edition | J.S.On 1, 1 recto in an early XVII. Cent. hand: Robarte of Glocester his Chronicle. Then in a later XVII. Cent. hand: This Robert liued about | the end of K: Hen: 3: Robert of Gloucester was near the Battle of Evesham 1265.The arms on the boards, according to W.A. Wright (Robert of Gloucester (Rolls Series), London, 1887, pp. xlii, xliii), may be those of Carew, meaning presumably the antiquary Richard Carew (1555-1620). In 2008 Philip Oldfield identified them as belonging to George Carew, Earl of Totnes (1555-1629) [See entries in Dictionary of National Biography.] [Formerly S.3.15; S.3.41].'92' in same hand as '97' of MS Hunter 250 - E. Mussell?415 belonged to Lord Somers, then to Jekyll and was in Jekyll sale in 1739 (Per N.R. Ker, letter 1 May 1978). Thence to Mussell and Ratcliffe.Bought by Hunter at John Ratcliffe's sale, 1776, for 16s. Ratcliffe sale no. 1203

Physical Description:

Bound volume.Paper, 11½ x 7 7/8, ff. 124 (or, including the fly-leaf on which the text is continued by the later hand, ff. 125), originally ff. 130, well written in single cols. of 42-54 lines, each about 9 3/4 x 5¼, margined with plummet, not ruled, no signatures or catchwords (probably cropped), foliation (XVIII. or XIX. Cent.) in pencil, partial (ff. 1-51), almost no marginalia, spaces left for illuminations, much cropped, otherwise remarkably clean and well preserved, traces of pounce still remaining, fol. sec. This King. Late Cent. XVI.Binding: Original, millboards, covered (black) calf, gilt blazon in the centre of each board, three lions passant, originally fastened with pig-skin straps, clasps, and catches, the last remain, recently re-backed, cinnamon edges, title, modern (gilt), on crimson morocco shield: ROBERT | OF | GLO'STER. Cent. XVI.-XVII.[For detailed collation see: John Young and P. Henderson Aitken, A Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of The Hunterian Museum in The University of Glasgow. (Glasgow, 1908), p. 339.]

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Normal conditions

Language:

English

Material Type:

Chronicle

Bibliography:

John Young & P.H. Aitken, A catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of the Hunterian Museum in the University of Glasgow (Glasgow, 1908), p. 339.